Saturday, May 31, 2008

Pics from the Road

Here are some shots from the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. It's Stars Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, and Kodi Smit-McPhee as the boy. It will be released this November.

I think Viggo is a good choice for the the father and the images look appropriately grim enough. The Road is about love, and it's about survival, but don't call it post-apocalyptic sci-fi because the masses would never enjoy anything like that.

CM has said that he got the theme for the book after thinking about a comet striking the Earth, and the resulting devasation that would ensue from the dust in the atmosphere.

That said. The movie will come out on November 26 somewhere in the Milky Way Galaxy . Here are some pre-screening faux reviews:

“A film that glows with the intensity of Hillcoat’s huge gift formovie-making…..Why see this?….Because in its lapidarytranscription of the deepest despair short of total annihilation wemay ever see on screen, the movie announces the triumph of hope — andlove — over nothingness.”

“The Road is the logical culmination of everything that CormacMcCarthy has written and it’s transformation into a Hollywood movie isnothing short of stunning. You come out of the movie theater a changedperson. It’s that powerful!”

C

“It’s hard to think of an apocalyptic tale as beautifully andhauntingly filmed as this one. The script posses a massive, Biblicalcadence and Hillcoat unleashes it on his actors with painterly effect.It will grip even the coldest human heart.”

D

“Devastating. The human predicament has never been more at home, moreeloquent than in the sere, postapoca ash land of THE ROAD the movie.Extraordinarly lovely and sad, a Hollywood classic-to-be.”

and E:

“Hillcoast has brilliantly captured the knife edge that fugitives in ahostile world stand on……Amid this Godot-like bleakness oncelluloid, the film shares something vital and enduring about theboy’s spirit, his father’s love and the nature of bravery itself.Hollywood doesn’t get much better than this. Be prepared, be veryprepared.”